Among the onlookers were people who had been close to them. Upon hearing Han Luoxue's words, those people immediately protested.
"Snow Girl, you can't do this! We're all honest and law-abiding people. We've paid our share of the grain taxes without fail, and I've always supported you."
“That’s right, Xueya. They are relatives, and we only help them out occasionally, but we don’t agree with what they say.”
"Yes, Xue girl, I've been talking to them and even tried to persuade them to apologize to you, but they just won't listen."
Helping out was a simple matter, and Han Luoxue knew that. However, they shouldn't help someone who was hostile to them.
Looking at the excited expressions on their faces, did they ever think about this day when they chose to help?
“I understand what you mean. If someone wants to kill me, you hand me a knife, and then tell me that you think he only wanted the knife to kill chickens or pigs, and that makes it all alright for you?”
Han Luoxue sneered, looking at the anxious, red-faced people, and said with a smile, "It's your freedom to help whomever you want, and it's also my freedom to give my seeds to whomever I want. I'll make this clear today: my seedlings will not be given to the families I helped. Although I haven't been home for the past six months, that's easy to find out, right?"
"You, Xue girl, you can't do this!"
"But we're your uncles, are you trying to force us to die?"
"Snow Girl, you have no conscience! We supported you so much, how could you cut off our livelihood!"
...
Listening to the complaints from several families, Han Luoxue smiled indifferently: "Say whatever you want, anyway, I'm not giving you my seedlings. You can continue to talk and curse, but if I'm in a bad mood, no one will need to plant any seedlings."
That's a bold statement. The people who were just watching the show were simply observing these companies courting disaster, since it didn't concern them.
These people who helped were partly out of consideration for their fellow family members, but they also made a lot of money themselves.
The rest of the villagers were displeased but helpless. Seeing these families suffer a setback, they all wore expressions of schadenfreude. But who could have imagined that Han Luoxue's next words would drag them all down with her?
They already know firsthand how good Han Luoxue's seedlings are.
In the last six months alone, if it weren't for the seedlings provided by Han Luoxue, they don't know if they could have survived until now.
They might sell their children, after all, everyone wants to survive.
Actually, they had tried growing their own vegetables at first, but the vegetable seeds they had grown in the past could not last more than a few days, and even after watering them, the harvest was extremely poor.
Only Han Luoxue provided it; it didn't require much effort, the harvest was good, and the yield was higher than what they had grown themselves before. They never dared to dream of such a good thing before.
Now, when they suddenly heard Han Luoxue say that she might not provide them with seedlings after the spring, how could they stand still?
Their eyes were red as they stared at the two groups of people, angrily questioning, "I told you before not to help them, but you wouldn't listen. Now look what you've done for yourselves!"
"You should have thought of this when you helped us back then. Xueya is right, otherwise we wouldn't dare to give you seedlings anymore!"
"Xue girl kindly gave you seedlings, but you went to help those who spoke ill of her, and you still have the nerve to cry foul here?"
"Exactly, they're all shameless. They even have the nerve to call themselves Xue's uncles. How can an uncle harm his own niece like this?"
Those families were quite eloquent, but compared to most people in the village, being surrounded by so many people, they initially tried to argue back, but their voices were eventually completely drowned out by the crowd.
Some people were indignant and took action directly. Those people were covered in dust and their hair was messy, making them look quite disheveled.
In the end, they were so frightened that they could only slink home.
Of course, after returning home, some people still blamed each other. After all, who would feel good about suddenly losing their way to make a living?
"I told you not to be greedy for such small gains. Now look what you've done, karma's coming your way!"
"Yesterday I was telling Xueya that I was going to send our son there, and now look what's happened, we've offended them to death."
"But once the grain is planted, it belongs to us. How we handle it is up to us. What right does Han Luoxue have to interfere?"
Some people were still unconvinced, but he was given a hard slap on the head: "Xue girl is right about one thing, the seedlings are her own, she can give them to whomever she wants!"
These words silenced everyone, because everyone knew that what he said was true.
The seedlings didn't belong to anyone, much less to the village; they were Han Luoxue's personal property.
She can give it to whomever she wants, and now they dare not make a fuss anymore. If they really make a scene to the point that Han Luoxue stops providing anything, the villagers could drown them with their spit.
"What can we do now? Even if the weather is favorable and the harvest is good next year, our little bit of food won't last until the crops are harvested."
After what happened today, even if they starve to death, no one else dares to help them. After all, they are a bloody lesson.
"Let's hold off for now. In a few days, we'll go apologize to Xue. If that doesn't work, we'll kneel down and beg for her forgiveness!"
The crowd was still very unhappy about this. How could they be happy to kneel down to a junior girl who was only a teenager?
But everyone knew that without Han Luoxue's food and the villagers' relief, how could they possibly survive? To live, they had to endure not only kneeling but also kowtowing.
...
After those families slunk away, the rest of the people who remained supported Han Luoxue.
“Xue girl, we really haven’t helped them. We also can’t stand the behavior of those families. You mustn’t stop planting the seedlings.”
"Snow Girl, we're all counting on you."
“That’s right, Xueya, why don’t we all go and help out at the breeding farm? We don’t need money or wages, as long as you can continue to provide seedlings.”
Looking at the worried faces, Han Luoxue smiled gently: "I've said before that as long as everyone is good to me, I won't abandon you. We'll provide seedlings, and we'll also pay people for the farm when they need them. We'll all make money together, and we'll all enjoy the good times together!"
"Besides, what I mentioned yesterday about teaching archery and reading is equally effective. Uncles, grandparents, you are all farmers who toil in the fields from dawn till dusk. Do you know why? Because you are incompetent and uneducated, you can't read. Even if we gave you easy jobs, you wouldn't be able to do them, right?"
Although it sounds unpleasant, it's the truth that everyone knows.
"Do you want your children to live like this for the rest of their lives?"
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